[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 70180] Please allow drop caps on one single line

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70180

--- Comment #7 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #6)
> I dont get the idea behind this as drop caps is intended to have more than
> one line.

While the classic implementation is as you pointed out, the idea behind the
whole concept is to *highlight* the first character/word of a
paragraph/chapter/... - and *typically* highlighting occurs not only by
different font, but also by different size and spanning across several lines.

But the OP's idea is a plausible extension of the concept, where N in {span
across N lines} could be 1, and highlighting is done only by different font.

Currently one can only implement this using manual assignment of a special
style to first parts of corresponding paragraphs. Which, of course, might lead
to errors (when some are erroneously skipped, or a highlighted portion got
shifted by a find/replace operation and later the highlight wasn't cleared).

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